RAD Art Fair
Solo exhibition
Musquiqui Chiying
First Floor
CARO, 164A Barbu Văcărescu Street, Sector 2, Bucharest, Romania
23 – 26 April 2026
Solo exhibition
Musquiqui Chiying
First Floor
CARO, 164A Barbu Văcărescu Street, Sector 2, Bucharest, Romania
23 – 26 April 2026
Press release
Tabula Rasa Gallery is pleased to announce the participation in RAD Art Fair 2026, where we will present The Postcards, a series of twelve pencil drawings by Musquiqui Chiying.
The Postcard is a collection of 12 pencil drawings that evokes a profound critique of the book "The Diseases of China, including Formosa and Korea" by W. Hamilton Jefferys and James L. Maxwell, published in 1911. Drawing from the book's disturbing portrayal, which links specific virus types to particular racial groups, the artist delves into the colonial perspective held by Europeans towards others.
The illustrations in the book exclusively depict Asian individuals, reinforcing a troubling colonial view that exoticises and stigmatises certain populations. In response, the artist recreates these illustrations by abstracting the images into shadow-like representations. Employing an inkjet printing method, the artist meticulously constructs each line, methodically working from the top to the bottom of the image. Through this process of recreation, The Postcard challenges the dehumanising nature of the original illustrations and exposes the underlying biases embedded in colonial narratives.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Musquiqui Chihying (b.1985) is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Taipei and Berlin. He explores the cultural and social identities constructed through the flow and circulation of audiovisual elements in physical and virtual spacetime. Specialising in the use of multimedia such as film and sound, he investigates the human condition and environmental system in the age of global capitalisation and engages in the inquiry of and research on issues of subjectivity in contemporary social culture in the Global South.
Selected solo exhibitions include: LISTE Art Fair Basel, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Basel, 2024); Ghost in the Sea, Hong Foundation 7th Tung Chung Prize, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (Taipei, 2024); Too Loud a Dust, Tabula Rasa Gallery (London, 2023); There are Lights that Never Go Out, Museum of Contemporary Art (Taipei, 2021); The Power of My Smile, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (Taipei, 2019); I’ll be Back, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2018). His works have been shown in several international institutions and film festivals, such as 72nd Berlinale (2022), Art Sonje Center in Seoul (2021), Centre Pompidou in Paris (2020), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2020), 68th Berlinale (2018), 2016 Taipei Biennial, 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014) etc. He is the artist-in-residence at the Delfina Foundation (London, 2021), the finalist of the 2019 Berlin Art Prize and the winner of the Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award 2019 from Han Nefkens Foundation in collaboration with the Fundació Joan Miró. He is a member of the Taiwanese art group Fuxinghen Studio, and the founder of the Research Lab of Image and Sound.
Tabula Rasa Gallery is pleased to announce the participation in RAD Art Fair 2026, where we will present The Postcards, a series of twelve pencil drawings by Musquiqui Chiying.
The Postcard is a collection of 12 pencil drawings that evokes a profound critique of the book "The Diseases of China, including Formosa and Korea" by W. Hamilton Jefferys and James L. Maxwell, published in 1911. Drawing from the book's disturbing portrayal, which links specific virus types to particular racial groups, the artist delves into the colonial perspective held by Europeans towards others.
The illustrations in the book exclusively depict Asian individuals, reinforcing a troubling colonial view that exoticises and stigmatises certain populations. In response, the artist recreates these illustrations by abstracting the images into shadow-like representations. Employing an inkjet printing method, the artist meticulously constructs each line, methodically working from the top to the bottom of the image. Through this process of recreation, The Postcard challenges the dehumanising nature of the original illustrations and exposes the underlying biases embedded in colonial narratives.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Musquiqui Chihying (b.1985) is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Taipei and Berlin. He explores the cultural and social identities constructed through the flow and circulation of audiovisual elements in physical and virtual spacetime. Specialising in the use of multimedia such as film and sound, he investigates the human condition and environmental system in the age of global capitalisation and engages in the inquiry of and research on issues of subjectivity in contemporary social culture in the Global South.
Selected solo exhibitions include: LISTE Art Fair Basel, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Basel, 2024); Ghost in the Sea, Hong Foundation 7th Tung Chung Prize, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (Taipei, 2024); Too Loud a Dust, Tabula Rasa Gallery (London, 2023); There are Lights that Never Go Out, Museum of Contemporary Art (Taipei, 2021); The Power of My Smile, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (Taipei, 2019); I’ll be Back, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2018). His works have been shown in several international institutions and film festivals, such as 72nd Berlinale (2022), Art Sonje Center in Seoul (2021), Centre Pompidou in Paris (2020), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2020), 68th Berlinale (2018), 2016 Taipei Biennial, 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014) etc. He is the artist-in-residence at the Delfina Foundation (London, 2021), the finalist of the 2019 Berlin Art Prize and the winner of the Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award 2019 from Han Nefkens Foundation in collaboration with the Fundació Joan Miró. He is a member of the Taiwanese art group Fuxinghen Studio, and the founder of the Research Lab of Image and Sound.
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